New website pays tribute to O’Brien charitable work

A new website claims that Denis O’Brien, Ireland’s richest man, is setting up a new charitable foundation that will publicise his philanthropic work. Despite repeated attempts to confirm the legitimacy of the website, queries to O’Brien and his advisers went unanswered.

The site, hosted at denisobrien.co.uk and denisobrienfoundation.com, went online in June. It claims it will be bringing together the “themes” of the many charities that O’Brien has supported “in the first foundation to bear his name”.

O’Brien already has a foundation, the Iris O’Brien Foundation, named after his mother, that spends more than €5m a year on charitable causes. He also founded Front Line Defenders, which supports human rights advocates, and the Digicel Foundation. He supports Concern Worldwide and a number of other charities.

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